Be Brave

Chapter Twenty Three

EDITED*17/03/16
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I woke up to a thumping sound on the bed and the light from the windows seeping through my closed eyes. I turned around until the light that was once there disappeared and returned to darkness. Choosing to ignore the thumping sound hoping it would stop sooner or later, I let my mind drift off.

It was when I heard a manly groan that last nights events came rolling back in, reminding me that I wasn't the only person in this bed right now. It also explained the thumping, which most likely was Chloe who was wide awake. I didn't freak out at the point that Four was in my bed with his arm around my waist because quite frankly I didn't want him to leave, let alone wake up. If he did, that would ruin my chance of ever falling back asleep this morning and I wasn't ready to wake up right this minute.

"Chloe can you please stop jumping on the bed?" Four grumbles tightening his grip on my waist and pulling me closer.

"Can you please get up? It's 8:53" She says making the thumping sound finally stop.

"I heard mom say she was going to make pancakes for breakfast today" He says sounding a bit more awake. Dammit!

"Really?! Do you think she's awake? I'll go and check! Then I can help her and we can make it together!" She exclaimes clapping her hands together.

"Okay you go do that Clo. Don't forget to close to door." He says.

"Okeii dokii" She says and shortly after, the door closing making a click sound.

Knowing Four he probably just lied to the little girl into getting her to leave the room. I know it wasn't the right thing to do but right now I desperately wanted to go back to sleep. I wasn't planning on getting up until around noon. As far as I hope, Four doesn't know that I'm awake so as long as I keep this act up long enough so I can fall asleep again everything will be fine.

A couple minutes later, as I was ever so slowly starting to drift off to sleep he speaks.

"Tris I know your awake"

I pretend I don't hear him but I'm pretty sure he noticed the hiccup in my breathing. I feel him shift beside me, placing my head on the pillow. Just as I think he's believed me and is getting out of bed I feel him place his hand on my hip as his forehead comes in contact with mine. His weight is off me but I can feel his body heat radiating off him letting me know he's even closer than he was before.

I pop my eyes open wanting to know what he was doing. I didn't exactly trust him especially at the fact that we were in a bed.

I'm met with his stormy blue eyes and it's as if I'm frozen in place. He's so close to me that his nose is brushing mine and our lips are only centimetres apart from one another's. One of his legs are between mine and his arms have moved to encircle around my hips keeping me from escaping.

"I knew you weren't sleeping" he says trying not to smirk but not doing a very good job of it.

"Uhm..." I stutter not really knowing what to say, not to mention the close proximity between us isn't helping.

"I know you don't want to talk about it, but I really need to know what happened. Did I do something wrong?"

"I saw Luke"

His gaze hardens instantly. He closes his eyes tightening his grip around me and clenching his teeth. When he opens his eyes I notice they've darkened a few shades almost making them look black. This side of Four scares me and right now I couldn't be more scared.

I tried to shift out of his vice-like grip but he wouldn't let me.

"Four your scaring me" I say trying to push him off me but failing miserably.